Workload segregation
Although the workload segregation is more of a usability feature of OpenStack cloud, it is worth mentioning in a discussion on cloud segregation. In the previous sections, we discussed Availability Zones and Host Aggregates that impact the way virtual machine instances are placed in an OpenStack cloud. The approach discussed till now handled the instance scheduling by handling a single virtual machine at a time, but what happens if you need to place your instances relative to each other? This use case is handled with workload segregation with affinity policy.
To make the situation a bit clearer, let's take the example of when you have two virtual machines and you want them to be placed on the same compute node. Another ...
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